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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT ALCANTARA pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to traffic firearms and conspiracy to launder money from his firearms trafficking.  ALCANTARA conspired to sell more than 100 “ghost guns” to individuals in the Dominican Republic.

According to the Indictment and statements made in court proceedings and filings:

WASHINGTON, D.C — The Department  of Justice, Department of  Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC ) today issued a joint compliance note focusing on  the voluntary self -disclosure policies that apply to U.S. sanctions, export controls , and other national security laws , including recent updates to certain of those policies .

WASHINGTON, D.C— The Department of Justice, Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today issued a joint compliance note focusing on the voluntary self-disclosure policies that apply to U.S. sanctions, export controls, and other national security laws, including recent updates to certain of those policies.

Our country's antiboycott regulations were enacted both to address participation by U.S. persons in unsanctioned foreign boycotts and to prevent U.S. industry from implementing the foreign policy prerogatives of other nations...

Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security
(BIS) added four entities, Intellexa S.A. in Greece, Cytrox Holdings Crt in Hungary, Intellexa
Limited in Ireland, and Cytrox AD in North Macedonia to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber
exploits used to gain access to information systems, threatening the privacy and security of
individuals and organizations worldwide.

Defendant Allegedly Smuggled Dual-Use Technologies and Ammunition from U.S. Companies for Russia’s Defense Sector

WASHINGTON, D.C.,-- Today, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced the imposition of civil penalties against a manufacturer of defense weapon systems and a defense contractor in resolution of alleged violations of the antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (antiboycott regulations) in connection with a 2019 trade show in Bahrain.

The Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce (“BIS”), has notified Jaeyoun Jung, of Puyallup, Washington (“Jung”), of its intention to initiate an administrative proceeding against Jung pursuant to Section 766.3 of the Export Administration Regulations (the “Regulations”),1 through the issuance of a proposed Charging Letter to Jung that alleges that Jung committed one violation of the Regulations.2 ...

WASHINGTON, DC. --The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security 
(BIS), Office of Technology Evaluation (OTE), in partnership with the Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), is 
conducting a comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Influenza Vaccine Industrial Base (IVIV).
 
The principal goal of the assessment and accompanying survey is to gain a better understanding of 
the IVIB supply chain network. The data collected will help identify the structure and 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in a collaborative endeavor to enhance global security, the United States joins its Five Eye partners – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom – in committing to formally coordinate on export control enforcement. This effort builds on existing information sharing and other cooperation among these key partners and will leverage enforcement resources to expand each country’s capacity to take action to prevent and deter evasion of export controls, including by restricting Russia’s access to technologies that fuel its unlawful invasion of Ukraine.